<B>Local actress in 'Cabaret' tour</B> <BR>By Ann Geracimos for THE WASHINGTON TIMES<P><BR>"Working on a character doesn't happen overnight," Miss Spratt says. "It took a lot of rehearsing and practicing to build her from scratch."<BR>Miss Spratt never had seen a stage production of the musical about an English woman's adventures in the decadent Berlin of the late 1920s and '30s until the night before she auditioned in New York City for the lead role. <P><A HREF="http://www.washtimes.com/arts/20011222-29630690.htm" TARGET=_blank><B>click for more</B></A>

<B>Still Licentious, but Freshly Vulnerable Too</B><BR>Article in the NY Times Ben Brantley<P>And did you like my number?"<P>The question, as delivered by Molly Ringwald to a nightclub patron just after she has finished her first song, suddenly sounds heartbreakingly anxious.<P>Ms. Ringwald is playing Sally Bowles, that free-living chanteuse of dubious talent. Miss Bowles, of course, has been asking this same question — through the mouths of an assortment of well-known actresses — night after night since the Roundabout Theater Company production of "Cabaret" opened nearly four years ago.<P><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/16/arts/theater/16STUD.html" TARGET=_blank><B>click for more</B></A><P>

And Thai-style:<BR><B>'Cabaret' has lots of life Drama students serve up classic Broadway musical in fine Thai style </B><BR>Bangkok Post - Thailand<BR>BY ALONGKORN PARIVUDHIPHONGS<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Regardless of the fact that it's a student production and a Broadway copycat, Cabaret, the latest production from Department of Performing Arts, Bangkok University, is a work of art.<P>Audiences at the Thailand Cultural Centre last Tuesday lapped up the Thai version of the three-hour journey to pre-Hitler Germany, a time when decadency was in fashion.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P><A HREF="http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020119001755&query=dance" TARGET=_blank><B>more...</B></A><P><BR>

My sister saw the stage production recently in Washington DC and was disappointed. But anyone who remembers the original movie (and show I guess) with Liza Minelli would be disappointed, I think. Liza was BORN to play that part. It was really a pinnacle for her and director Bob Fosse. And Joel Grey, of too. What a great story and synthesis of all the theatrical elements to tell an incredible morality tale.

<B>After Quasimodo, life will be a cabaret for Arena</B><BR>By Sharon Verghis<BR>Sydney Morning Herald<BR>April 25 2002<P>The blockbuster musical is back in the headlines, casting doubts on the perennial rumours of its demise. The cast of the latest all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza to roll off the chorus line, Cabaret, was announced yesterday right in the middle of a heated battle over venue availability and a glut of big musicals scheduled to hit the Sydney entertainment market.<P><A HREF="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/24/1019441264912.html" TARGET=_blank><B>More</B></A><BR>

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Revolving Cast Keeps 'Cabaret' Fresh<P>MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP on Yahoo! News<P>NEW YORK (AP) - It opened in March 1998, but the party isn't over yet at "Cabaret," thanks to the musical's policy of bringing in new performers every so often to shake up the long-running revival.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P><a href=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020522/ap_en_ot/wkd_broadway_tix_2 target=_blank>More</a>

In the Sydney Morning Herald:<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><B>McCune to take on Minnelli role</B><BR>August 7 2002<P>After being compared with Julie Andrews in her first role in a major musical, former Blue Heelers star Lisa McCune's latest role invites comparisons with the formidable Liza Minnelli.<P>In fishnets and corset, McCune will star in the Melbourne stage production of Cabaret, which opens on December 11.<P>The stage musical was revived in London in 1995, 29 years after it first opened in New York.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P><A HREF="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/06/1028157934367.html" TARGET=_blank><B>More...</B></A><BR>

The Mendes production, restaged in Australia by B. T. Nicholl and associate choreographer Cynthia Onrubia, is full of confronting detail. When friendly Ernst Ludwig (Tyler Coppin) comes to Fraulein Schneider and Herr Schultz's engagement party, the simple taking off of a coat causes a gasp.

Although it's been years since Judi Connelli first saw the Oscar-winning movie Cabaret, she recalls being mesmerised by the performances of its singing stars, Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey. Connelli only vaguely remembers a minor character, the landlady called Fraulein Schneider.

Now, Melbourne theatre audiences are about to discover that Fraulein Schneider, in Sam Mendes' stage version of Cabaret, is no longer a minor role. She's crucial to the plot. And Connelli's portrayal of her scored rave reviews during the Sydney season.

The Melbourne season opens on December 11 at Her Majesty's Theatre and, according to Connelli, anyone who has seen the movie should forget it, because the this stage version is an entirely new experience.

There are performers who come out of Chicago, and then there are those who seem to belong to the city, stars whose lights shine brightest here, whose fans harbor proprietary feelings of kinship and outright love.

Eight years ago British theatre and film director Sam Mendes breathed new life into the stage show Cabaret in London's West End. Last night his production burst on to the Melbourne stage with much-loved former television cop Lisa McCune reminding the opening night audience that life is, indeed, a cabaret.

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